"Rendez-nous le Tchip": Performing a French Black Community through Podcasts

There is no Black community in France” (Pliskin). This widely shared idea is based on the fact that Afro-descendant people in France share neither the same culture or language nor the same history. They tend to organize around nationality or regions rather than around race. However, this is changing. In this article, I study the podcasts Le Tchip and Piment as performative tools of a young Black community in France that is based on criteria of race, and show how the strong lead of women and/or LGBTQI+ people in these podcasts shapes the common values of this Black community in the making.